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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite opposition from Republican moderates and conservatives, House leaders are pressing ahead with a budget plan whose success is critical to the party's hopes to deliver on one of President Donald Trump's top priorities - a GOP-only effort to overhaul the tax code....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A representative of the Russian developer who partnered with President Donald Trump to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow was the eighth person at a Trump Tower meeting arranged by Donald Trump Jr. during the campaign, a lawyer for the developer said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump declared Tuesday it's time to "let Obamacare fail" after the latest GOP health care plan crashed and burned in the Senate, a stunning failure for the president, Republican leader Mitch McConnell and a party that has vowed for years to abolish the law....
Wis 12:13, 16-19; Rom 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 Anecdote “Your Excellency, your cabin-mate left his valuables with me for the same reason!” A Bishop was sailing for Europe on one of the great transatlantic ocean liners.  When he went on board, he found that another passenger was to share a cabin with him. After unpacking his bags, he went to the purser and inquired if he could leave his gold watch and other valuables in the ship’s safe.  He explained that he had just met the man who was to occupy the other berth in his cabin and he was afraid that the man might not be trustworthy.  The purser smiled, accepted the valuables and remarked, “It’s all right, Bishop, I’ll be very glad to take care of them for you.  The other man has just been up here and left his valuables for the same reason!”  Today’s Gospel reminds us that we should not judge others hastily.  There is...
(CBCPNews) Archbishop Romulo Valles of Davao has been elected as the new president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.Valles, current CBCP vice president, will succeed Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan, who finished his second and final term.At 66, Valles will be the 20th head of the 72-year old collegial body of bishops.The archbishop will lead the 83 active, 5 diocesan administrators and 43 honorary members of the CBCP from 86 ecclesiastical jurisdictions.Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalooan was also elected CBCP vice president in an election held at the Pope Pius XII Catholic Center in Paco, Manila on Saturday.CBCP officials have a two-year tenure in office, or a total of four to include the second term.If tradition is to be followed, incumbent officials are reelected for their second and last term.Ordained a priest in 1976, Valles was appointed as bishop of Kidapawan in 1997. In 2006, he was named archbishop of Zamboanga until 2012 when he w...
The Commission for Youth of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh (CBCB) has held a preparatory and orientation programme for youth coordinators and ministers from the country's eight dioceses for the worldwide Synod of Bishops on young people to be held next year at the Vatican.  The daylong programme on July 14 at the CBCP center in Dhaka focused on exchanging information, views and a plan of action leading up to the 2018 synod, organizers said. Pope Francis has convoked the 15th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in the ‎Vatican in October 2018, on the theme, “Youth, Faith, and Vocational Discernment”. ‎"The Vatican has offered us some guidelines and a questionnaire on faith, vocation and pastoral works which are core issues of the upcoming synod, so we have called all diocesan youth coordinators and ministers to share the information and set the next course of action," Holy Cross Brother Uzzal Placid Per...
(Vatican Radio) The first hearing by the Vatican tribunal of a case against two former officials of the 'Bambino Gesù' children’s hospital took place on Tuesday. The hospital, Europe’s largest paediatric research centre, is owned by the Vatican and often referred to as ‘the Pope’s hospital’.Former president of the 'Bambino Gesù' foundation, Giuseppe Profiti and former treasurer, Massimo Spina, are charged with illicitly using money to renovate an apartment belonging to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the former Vatican secretary of state. They stand accused of paying over 422.000 euros of hospital funds to Gianantonio Bandera, owner of the Castelli Re construction company.During the morning hearing, tribunal president Paolo Papanti-Pellettier rejected the defence lawyers’ claims that the Vatican has no jurisdiction over activities related to the hospital, which is located on Italian territory. He also rejected a request ...
Vatican City, Jul 18, 2017 / 10:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A commission of Catholic and Orthodox leaders tasked with examining the wartime record of Bl. Aloysius Stepinac concluded their final session last week, agreeing to disagree about the Croatian cardinal’s cause for canonization.The Secretariat of the Holy See prepared a joint statement, adopted by both sides, at the conclusion of the commission’s sixth and final round of meetings at the Vatican July 12-13.The document states that the opinions of either side remain unchanged, but also acknowledges that ultimately the competency for approval of the cardinal’s cause falls under Pope Francis.“It has come to the conclusion that various events, speeches, writings, silences, and views are still subject to different interpretations. In the case of Cardinal Stepinac, the interpretations that were predominantly given by Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs remain divergent,” it states.It included their thanks t...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via ReutersBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Two former top Vatican hospital officialsappeared before a Vatican court for a pretrial hearing on allegations of embezzlement.Giuseppe Profiti, who was president of Bambino Gesuhospital from 2008 to 2015, and Massimo Spina, the former treasurer, appeared withtheir lawyers before Vatican magistrates July 18 in a nearly two-hourpreliminary hearing, led by the presiding Vatican judge, PaoloPapanti-Pelletier.A court clerk read the charges, which the Vatican had madepublic July 13: Profiti, 55, and Spina, 57, were accused of an illicit appropriationand use of funds belonging to the Bambino Gesu Foundation to pay GianantonioBandera, an Italian contractor, to refurbish an apartment belonging to VaticanCity State. The apartment was used as the residence of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, formerVatican secretary of state.The indictment said Profiti and Spina extracted more than420,000 euros for "completely non-...
By Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Denouncingthe "demonization of migrants," hateful rhetoric, the militarization of the border and a system that dividesfamilies, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, called on Catholicsto heed the church's teachings to welcome the migrant. In a July 18 pastoral letter "Sorrowand Mourning Flee Away," on migration and addressed to the "People of God in the Diocese of El Paso,"Bishop Seitz, who serves a border community near Mexico, said the country'ssecurity cannot be used as a "pretext to build walls and shut the door tomigrants and refugees.""God did not create aworld lacking room for all at the banquet of life," he wrote. He said that whilesome might question his reflections, "I am not substituting politics for theteaching of the church," but as a pastor, his "duty is to the Gospel of JesusChrist," he wrote. And the Gospel in the Old Testament is clear, he said: "Youshall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born...
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